Definition of Tolerant

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Definition of Tolerant
	Tolerant Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent. Related Definitions: Favoring, Forbearing, Inclined, Indulgent, To, Tolerate, Toleration

Tolerant Quotations

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
Jackie Kennedy

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
Flannery O'Connor

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Zi

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Wendell Willkie

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.
Billy Joel

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